CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXIII

It’s been many months since our last CSS-Tricks Chronicle. As a reminder, these are just little roundups of news of a slightly more personal nature and that of the site itself and surrounding projects.

Last update, I wasn’t even a dad yet! That’s changed 😍. My daughter is going in for her four-month checkup today!

I’m also working out of a brand new office here in Bend, Oregon. We split the space with CraftCMS. It’s the first time I’ve had an office that I have real (part) ownership over. We’ve built out a kitchen area in it and are decorating it and fleshing it out to be useful and fun for all of us.

One particularly cool thing, we splurged on a VocalBooth. It’s got the whole medium-fancy podcasting setup in there, so it’s pretty darn good sound quality for the podcasting we do. Plus it’s a nice place to take a call or meeting as well.

I made a round of updates to my microsite The Power of Serverless for Front-End Developers. My goal with that site is to explain the idea to the best of my ability and how it can be a useful thing to know about particular for front-end developers to do more with the skills they already have. Once you’re sold on that, it’s still a huge world to wrap your head around. One of the issues is understanding how many different services are out there and what roles they are trying to play. So the Services section is decently fleshed out and organized to help with that.

Over on CodePen Radio, I got to chat about all this with Marie Mosley. That’s the first time I’ve really talked about it, so it kinda resulted in a big ol’ thought dump.

I’ve had so many thoughts about this “serverless” stuff, I figured I’d formulate them into a proper conference talk. I’m not doing too many of those this year, but I’ll definitely be at An Event Apart Seattle (April 2-4), and Front-End Design Conference (April 25-27). Come!

Tons going on at CodePen, of course. We’re always podcasting all about that, so if you’re particularly interested in behind-the-scenes CodePen, CodePen Radio is your friend. As I imagine any business, we’re always hard at work on a mix of projects. Some largely internal, like rearchitechting our email system, and some directly for our users, like rewriting our realtime systems to make features like Collab Mode way better.

As the year flipped over, of course we rounded up the Most Hearted list, so if you missed that, check it out.

ShopTalk just had a major milestone! Our 300th episode! Dave and I take the opportunity to talk about then and now. We’ve had loads of fun and educational episodes this year though, so if you just pick and choose episodes to listen to, I bet you’ll find one worth a crack.